Inquirer.net leaps
to No. 21 in 100Hot

THE INQUIRER Interactive at www.inquirer.net jumped three notches from its previous ranking to become the world’s 21st most visited news website, according to the latest update of Washington-based 100Hot.com (www.100hot.com).

Inquirer.net affirms its place as the only Philippine site to land in the Top 30 joining the ranks of global news organizations such as CNN and CNET.

It has been a steady climb for Inquirer.net at the rankings of 100Hot affirming that the website continues to generate more page views, or more requests for online readers to

view pages from the online newspaper.

Inquirer.net has actually jumped 14 notches from No. 35 to its present ranking in a span of just two months. On November, 100Hot.com ranked Inquirer.net to No. 26, overtaking the online edition of the Wall Street Journal (www.wsj.com).

Based on data provided by US-based website host Uunet, an MCI Worldcom company, Inquirer.net was averaging 340,859 page views a day in October a huge jump from the 231,894 daily average in September. Inquirer.net actually logged an all-time high of 813,421 page views in a single day from 00:00 GMT to 23:59 GMT (8 a.m. Oct. 16 to 8 a.m. Oct. 17, Manila Time).

This jump in page views can be attributed to the introduction of features added to the online newspaper that includes Breaking News, 24H Edition, the Special Sites and most recently the Estrada Impeachment Trial Running Account, the first of its kind in the Philippines.

A "page view" refers to a request by a browser for a single webpage or HyperText Markup Language page. Meanwhile, "hits" are requests not only for the HTML page but also all its associated elements, including images, text files and scripts.

One page view is equivalent to several hits, from a low of five to as many as two dozen depending on the number of images in the particular HTML page. This makes page views a more accurate gauge of the amount of traffic a website actually generates.

The Inquirer online edition first broke into the Top 40 on Aug. 24, when 100Hot.com ranked it the world’s 40th most popular news site. 100Hot.com is maintained by Seattle, Washington-based Go2 Networks (www.go2net.com), a Nasdaq-listed firm.—Inquirer.net